MAY DAY

May Day is a great international labour holiday. It was born in the United States of America, workers all over the world are very proud of it. In Great British of the United Kingdom , the first May Day meeting was held as early as 1890. But in 1899 , the first of May was finally chosen the Day of International Solidarity of the working people. Since then, May Day has been considered the day when the working people in many countries show their mutual friendship. They march and demonstrate for their solidarity. The day now symbolizes the spirit of the working class all over the world.

In Viet Nam , as in other Socialist countries , May Day has been celebrated regularly to promote and revive the spirit of the working class and the Trade Unions. On this day, there have always been demonstrations and big marches with banners and red flags showing international friendship and solidarity.

May Day is considered as a special festival of Vietnamese as well . All people have two days off work on April 30th and May 1st . Vietnamese people commemorate a victory of Sai Gon ( Ho Chi Minh city ) . Many young men take part in folk games in different locals such as ; " tug of war " , " race boat " , " race horse" , " bull fight" , etc ....

People 'd like to have special activities on particular occasion to show that it is an event to be remembered. Forexample, many talks on the history and development of May Day and Victory of Sai Gon in the South of Viet Nam celebrations have been given in schools. All teachers and students are very eager to participate in the lecture.

The Colourful banners appear everywhere on the roads in the centre of cities. Sometimes, they organize attractive dancing and singing performances in the public of square of the city. Every family usually have a party and drink beer, champagne and make traditional food in order to commemorate the days.

The festivities in Vietnam end with a huge firework display. The blue, red, violet, green, yellow and white , light up the night sky and fall like shooting stars in to the water below at the Sword Lake ( Hoan Kiem lake) and West lake in centre of Ha Noi capital.

Published by literature book grade 9
updated information by Kim